A large codebase would require many pictures. Maybe it's possible if you took a video and figured out a way to optimally scroll the data so as to reconstitute the codebase via AI / OCR, but that's a lot more work than most people are willing to put into it.
The goal isn't to stop all possible avenues of IP extraction, just to make the barrier a bit higher than git clone / git push.
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How are you planning on stopping the camera on a phone?
You need legal protection.
A large codebase would require many pictures. Maybe it's possible if you took a video and figured out a way to optimally scroll the data so as to reconstitute the codebase via AI / OCR, but that's a lot more work than most people are willing to put into it.
The goal isn't to stop all possible avenues of IP extraction, just to make the barrier a bit higher than git clone / git push.
You still need legal protection. You have no IP protection without it.
Good luck!